Robert X. Cringely: Make It 15 Percent Funnier - How MPEG-7 Might Change Hollywood Forever
"MPEG-7 is called a Multimedia Content Description Interface, and compression is only one of its functions. MPEG-7 takes every aspect of a scene to a lower level of abstraction. For visual material, a lower abstraction level would be a description of shape, size, texture, color, movement, trajectory, and position. Audio material can be reduced to key, mood, tempo, tempo changes, and position in sound space. The highest level abstraction would give semantic information like, "This is a scene with a barking brown dog on the left and a blue ball that falls down on the right, with the sound of passing cars in the background.""